“I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the comment sections on these videos actually, and it does not seem like bots. I clicked on people’s profiles; these are real profiles, thousands of followers, no signs of inorganic activity,” Maddox says “People just like it.”
But even if the views and engagement are real, that doesn’t mean this content is profitable—yet. Maddox pointed out that the new accounts most likely haven’t been enrolled into TikTok Creator Funds or other social media revenue-sharing programs, as they require an application and certain views. Maddox said that earning potential was huge. Videos with millions of hits could earn them thousands per video.
AI Fruit content began to be posted in early March. Fruit Love IslandMany of the pages created recently clearly draw inspiration from it. There’s It was a fruity summer, the popular teenager drama Summer I Turned Pretty; Fruitpire DiariesBased on the CW Series The Vampire DiariesThe’and It is Blinding to Eat FoodBased on Netflix’s Love is blind.
This AI fruit content includes predecessors such as the Italian brainrot characters Like Ballerina cappuccina, Bombardino crocodilo, and the Elsagate controversy. The closest parallel is the AI Fruit miniseries, which attempt to tell a story across several segments or episodes. microdramasAmerican large tech companies have begun producing short scripted vertical series. starting to invest This is more. These are short, episodic videos that aim to be popular on social media. They will eventually direct viewers to paid sequels.
Ben L. Cohen is an actor from Los Angeles. credited in He has been involved in around 15 vertical microdramas. There is at least one thing that he sees as a common theme between these AI fruit dramas, and shows on which he worked: Both feature a lot of AI. “lots of violence toward women.” The titles are designed to grab attention and include a lot of drama. “Alpha Werewolf Daddy Impregnated Me,” Cohen says.
“It draws people in, I think, seeing that jarring, absurd, cartoonish vibe. It’s cartoonish abuse, but it’s still abuse.”
Acting gigs in LA are still vertical microdramas, but not all of them. Cohen spoke with others in the entertainment industry to discuss how AI was already becoming more integrated into videos. This could pose a danger to human actors who are used in clickbait. It’s cheaper and quicker to produce AI episodes of fruit than real productions. It also raises the question—are some people going to prefer the AI series over the ones they’re inspired by? Yes, it’s already true.
“How is Love Island gonna outdo AI Fruit Love Island?” One TikToker, who had more than 70 000 followers, said that AI fruits were more entertaining than reality shows. After the backlash began, she deleted it. However, other users agreed.
“I think TikTok was definitely a big part of that,” Cohen speaks about audiences’ shortening of attention and the desire for compressed, AI-generated drama. “It makes sense that people are intrigued by a one-minute clip, and then they’ll be like ‘Oh, I’ll watch another one-minute clip.’ You’re not committing to a full, heaven forbid, 20-minute episode. Or 40 minutes. Or an hour. You can just watch one minute.”
